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Opening Character Dossiers

  Copyright Glo Lewis 7/31/2023   Dear Readers of My Blog, 💙   Character Dossiers: I hope so much that you are all doing well. I have been thinking about you and this blog post for days, yet life kept getting in the way. But here we are now, so let’s begin. Below you will find the dossiers on three of my main characters. If circumstances dictate that I create other main characters, I will develop a dossier for them as well, but the three that I have developed below are my start. You may wonder about how to create names for characters. My approach is simply to think of someone whom I’ve known in past times, and then to research in Google names in their ethnicity, e.g., Italian names or English names. Alternatively, if your muse directs you and you feel comfortable with that information, go with it, so long as you will not embarrass or defame anyone. My Three Main Characters Thus Far:   Joseph Paul (Joe) Mancini: It is 1958. Oakland, California. Joe was born in M

Beginning a Teaching Novel

  Copyright Glo Lewis 7/25/2023   Dear Readers of My Blog, 💓   Sensitive Content Warning on My Blog: I believe that I will be able to continue my blog with Google. I still have more of their policy links to review and act upon, but I decided that today it’s more important to communicate with you, my readers, first, to give you another update and the beginning of our teaching novel. To conform to Google’s policy regarding violence, I added information in my Profile to advise that my blogsite is not for children of any age—that it’s for adults, particularly adults who are interested in creative writing. Google responded by putting a “Sensitive Content Warning” Banner prior to my blog. Therefore, readers of my blog will need to click on the button that states, “I understand, and I wish to continue” before they can access my blog posts. Again, the reason for this is because as fiction writers, we will be discussing prose and dialogue that sometimes contains violence. But fea